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Legislative Assembly (27 October 2026, 2:00 pm)

27 October 2026

Contents updated on 6 Nov 2026

The sitting opens and moves into an extended Question Time covering health system accountability, corruption and procurement issues linked to Operation Kingfisher, education funding and school governance, planning and taxation settings, social services oversight, and union influence, highlighting ministerial positions and opposition challenges on integrity, service delivery and economic conditions.

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Opening of sitting and broad Question Time scrutiny

00:10

Opening of sitting and health system accountability

00:10

Opening of sitting and ministerial portfolio arrangements

00:10

Q1 — Opposition: performance of Canberra Health Services

00:38

Q1 supplementaries — accountability, ethics of waiting lists, staff concerns

03:32

Q2 — Opposition: closure of existing specialist referrals

08:14

Question Time — Operation Kingfisher, procurement and business climate

12:56

Q3 — Attorney‑General: possible criminal charges from Operation Kingfisher

12:56

Q4 — Strathnairn School procurement and corrupt delegates

15:18

Q5 — Business Minister: ACT firms relocating interstate and small business support

18:51

Question Time — education budgets, behaviour and Whitlam School procurement

22:33

Q6 — Education Minister: union criticism and responsibility for school budget changes

22:33

Q6 supplementaries — funding cuts dispute and implementation of resourcing review

26:38

Education Minister — rising school violence and behaviour frameworks

30:08

Education — behaviour programs and teacher attrition to central office

35:11

Whitlam School procurement — Director-General role and integrity concerns

36:24

Question Time — planning reforms, taxation, child protection and Woden facilities

40:17

Canberra House Pattern Book — design suitability and competition structure

40:17

Canberra House Pattern Book — delivery timeline and approvals pathway

44:03

Access Canberra — unused customer credits in registration renewals

45:43

Treasurer — commercial land rates increases and lack of detailed modelling

47:30

Strathnairn School and West Belconnen — planning data and capacity pressures

51:09

Our Booris, Our Way — funding horizon, secretariat gaps and implementation

54:13

Woden Library–Access Canberra co-location — consultation, security and library use

57:39

Question Time — emergency ophthalmology and free period products

01:00:11

Q — Vassarotti: emergency ophthalmology at CHS

01:00:11

Minister for Education: free period products roll-out

01:02:48

Question Time — CFMEU influence and integrity concerns

01:07:45

Q — Morris: CFMEU influence and Operation Kingfisher

01:07:45

Supplementaries — CFMEU lobbying and contrary decisions

01:10:47

Matter arising: allegation of CFMEU ‘influence’ mislead

01:13:45

Private members’ business — disability oversight and health access

01:17:57

From question time to private members’ business — disability death review scheme

01:17:57

Post‑questions procedures: committee correspondence and papers

01:17:57

Private members’ motion: establish disability death review scheme

01:19:07

Royal Commission recommendations and ACT obligations

01:23:02

Oversight bodies’ concerns and call for budget priority

01:25:53

Opposition response: support for disability death review scheme

01:29:19

Opposition — support for motion and conditional backing of amendments

01:30:26

Minister Orr — purpose and complexity of a disability death review

01:34:23

Minister Orr — Royal Commission, national consistency and data access

01:38:37

Minister Orr — legislative scheme, realistic timelines and constraints

01:42:46

Ms Nuttall — amendments to restore establishment and set 2028 deadline

01:47:39

Government backbencher — Royal Commission findings and case for urgent ACT action

01:53:46

Government backbencher — support for compromise wording and concern about further delay

01:57:47

Minister Orr: amendment on disability death review scheme

02:00:16

Minister Orr: legislative timeframes, PCO capacity and resourcing

02:03:35

Chair: divisions and adoption of amended disability death review motion

02:06:38

Ms Nuttall: closing remarks on disability death review scheme

02:08:06

Private members’ motion — CHS specialist waitlists and closed referrals

02:12:36

Mr Parton: motion on CHS specialist waitlists and closed referrals

02:12:36

Mr Parton: demand for fair pathways, leadership and culture in health system

02:16:50

Crossbench/Greens: outpatient eligibility, GP capacity and alternatives

02:21:20

Crossbench/Greens: patient impacts, communication failures and alternative models

02:24:46

Opposition member — concerns on retrospective outpatient criteria

02:29:48

Opposition member — paediatric allergy waitlist removals and lack of consultation

02:32:34

Opposition member — parent testimony and call for compassionate reform

02:38:36

Health Minister — defence of outpatient reforms and Walsh review context

02:43:40

Health Minister — ACT allergy clinic access, GP role and next steps

02:48:51

Opposition member — critique of universal access and waitlist management

02:56:07

Canberra Health Services waits — criticism of removals

02:59:30

Health motion — opposition closing and vote

03:02:17

Papers, short statements and adjournment policy debates

03:04:59

Papers, overdue updates and 90‑second statements

03:04:59

Papers under standing order 211A — request on Richardson shops

03:04:59

90‑second statements — Nara treaty, drug deaths, veterans support

03:05:58

90‑second statements — war widows and small business pressures

03:10:04

Adjournment debates — macroeconomic resilience, recycling policy and youth facilities

03:12:57

Adjournment debate — student speech on global macroeconomy

03:12:57

Adjournment — Greens critique of recycling and packaging policy

03:17:49

Adjournment — youth call for local volleyball facilities

03:22:55

Minister’s response — MRF delays and soft plastics limits; adjournment

03:24:39

Legislative Assembly (27 October 2026, 2:00 pm)

27 October 2026

Legislative Assembly Tue, 27 Oct 2026 ACT Legislative Assembly

Follow its sittings

00:09 - 00:12

Speaker 1

Chief Members. Mr Barr.

00:12 - 00:33

Speaker 8

Ah thank you Mr Speaker. As I think members are aware, Minister Paterson will be absent from question time today for personal reasons. So the Deputy Chief Minister will assist members with questions in the health and mental health portfolios, and Minister Cheyne will assist members with questions in police, fire emergency services, and the gaming reform portfolios.

00:33 - 00:37

Speaker 5

Thank you Mr Barr. Mr Parton, question without notice.

00:37 - 01:17

Member of the Legislative Assembly (ACT) | Brindabella

Member | Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory

Mark Parton

Thank you, Mr Speaker. My question is to the minister representing the minister for health. Minister, former Labor Chief Minister Jon Stanhope recently described the decline of our hospital system under this government from one of the best to be one of the worst performing in the country and that "that deterioration was no accident, rather, it culminated through deliberate policy choices", end quote. The evidence is clear. There are 65,000 people waiting for specialist appointments, referrals being closed following changes to eligibility criteria, and nurses preparing for industrial action amid stalled pay negotiations and concerns about respect.

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